Hello Hellsweepers,

On behalf of the Hellsweeper VR team, we would like to thank everyone for participating in our Alpha Demo!

Community feedback plays a huge role in helping us mold Hellsweeper VR into a game that YOU would love to play. And based on the hundreds of responses that we received, it’s humbling and encouraging to know that an overwhelming number of you seemed to have enjoyed the demo and are excitedly looking out for the full game launching Q3 this year.



During the past few months, we've read each and every one of your comments and suggestions, and zoomed in on the requests that were frequently brought up like alternative reloading mechanics, better weapon feedback, improved enemy AI, more accessible and intuitive controls across various devices and more.

A few of you also pointed out issues with underwhelming sound effects, lack of music and a couple of odd-looking graphical assets -- but don’t worry, most of these were either placeholders or still under production.

Lastly, we’d like to assure you that although the demo was only playable using select PCVR devices, Hellsweeper VR will be available on various PC and mobile VR headsets during and after its launch.

Since we released the demo in September 2021, our team has been diligently making all the fixes and working on some really awesome suggestions from the community. We've also gone full-speed on development and have started swapping out early placeholders with the final assets. Here’s a quick one, with more surprises to come soon!




Along with content, we've also been fine-tuning the gameplay mechanics.

Sometimes, enemies are determined to take you with them. Minions now crawl to you with determined passion whenever their upper body remains. This makes you more aware of your surroundings and ensures you keep them down for good.



Many of you suggested adding elemental variants of the enemies to complement the player's elemental magic skill tree. We heard you!



We're still working on the rest of the gang but here are some previews. Elemental enemies don't just come with elemental abilities and resistances, they also have some unique attacks that require different offensive and defensive strategies to weed them out.





Finally, as we focus all our energy and resources into making sure that we deliver a kickass game -- and hopefully, on time! -- we would also like to announce the closing of our alpha demo. The last day to access and play the alpha demo will be on 31st January 2022.

But don't worry. We’ll be actively updating and sharing progress of the game, such as content and gameplay sneak previews, with the community so don’t forget to regularly check our Steam forum or join our discord channel. In the meantime, you can check out our development roadmap here. We'll update the scope and content as we go along.

Hellsweeper VR’s full release is scheduled for Q3 2022.


If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to reach out to us through our Steam Forums or chat with us on Discord. We love engaging with the community.

For more updates, please don’t forget to wishlist HellsweeperVR. Your support means a lot to our team. Thank you!

Crafted with Love,
The Mixed Realms Team

• Change network framework to Steam API. Now you can player p2p online battle with your friends or other people easily.
  
• Optimize network transportation. Now game can support more players online in battle with less bandwidth requirement.
  
• Add AI player. Now you can battle with your AI opponents or teammates.
  
• Optimize ship controlling. Now you can operate your ship more handy and fast.
  
• Enhance graphics and effects. Adding camera shake effect, tuning post processing effect and fixing thruster effects.

-Dunkina's basketballs can no longer damage/stun the player more than one time
-Leaderboards now show the average completion time of the level
-Reworked the grappling hook animation system
-Added first person animations for the grappling hook
-Getting stunned now temporarily updates the player's HUD
-Added death screen FX
-Reworked the sliding system
-The player can now slide forward-right and forward-left depending on the key pressed during the slide
-The player can now slide on all directions upon landing
-The player can now jump while sliding
-The player can now longer spam sliding to get the initial slide boost
-Emote/celebration animations now properly play in first person
-Throw and call ball animations now properly play in first person
-Melee punch animations now properly play in first person

-Updated the mantle/climb animation
-Updated the camera lean while sliding and grappling
-Sliding no longer limits the player's camera
-Adjusted animation aim offsets and made them more responsive

-Fixed a known issue that caused achievements not to work
-Fixed a bug that caused the pistol or shield indicator to grey out and flicker if the ball was not called back
-Fixed a bug that caused the wrong button to show up on the press button name to recall the ball message

As you guys can see, we haven’t released our weekly update this week. Because we are focusing our energy on improving and completing our major update before the Lunar New Year. The following contents will be included in the major update:

ːbbtgemː NPC Factions System
ːbbtgemː Trade Mechanism Overhaul
ːbbtgemː New Wonder Buildings
ːbbtgemː The Spring Festival Events


We have added 5 new Factions
4 of which are from unique cultural regions. And these Factions can provide you with up to 25 new buildings, 4 new crops and 17 new recipes as your reputation level increases gradually after completing events and trading with them.
（As for the 5th one, he is the merchant who take advantage of the fruits of your hard labor in the previous version.）
In addition, the new Trade Mechanism and Wonder Buildings are highly related to these Factions and will be introduced in detail in the following sections.
We hope that introducing these Factions into game can bring you more interesting experience.
Before they are officially brought into the game, let me introduce you to some of the contents that may arouse your interest.

New Crop - Cactus
You may ask whether cactus normally grows in the desert? And currently there isn’t a desert terrain on map...
Well, that won’t be a problem for our art designer if she could do some OT work...（Wait, put down the knife! Please! Someone! Stop her!!!）


New Building -Temple of Kukulcán
Originating from the Mayan civilization, El Castillo is an ancient building mainly used for praying and sacrificing.
While in the game, it will serve as a resting place for those citizens who have passed away.
I know that many gamers who are familiar with South American culture will have different opinions on the role of this sacred building.
But! It’s like a unlimited version of Cemetery, my friend. This idea is way more humane than the one saying burning the dead and dump them into the river requested by some “brutal players”, isn't it?


New Recipes - Bamboo basket
As long as you can obtain the raw materials - Bamboo, you can start to mass produce Basket which can increase the citizens’ carry weight.
But how can you get the bamboo? Well you will know then.
Yes, the panda is just put there for decoration which has nothing to do with the contents.（Whatever you will say, cuteness is justice!）.


More interesting contents are waiting you to discover. Just in a few days. So stay tuned.

There's good news and bad news about the Wonder Buildings.
The good news is, we've added 2 new Wonder Buildings.
The bad news is that in future games, the Wonder Buildings can only be unlocked after reaching the highest reputation level of Factions. In other words, friends who have not yet built the Wonder Buildings, please seize the last opportunity to build them without reputation restriction.

Wonder Building - Great Palace
The prototype of the Great Palace is the core building of the Daming Palace in the Tang Dynasty, which is also called Hanyuan Palace.
As one of the most powerful Factions in human civilization at that time, the Tang Empire managed the largest population on the earth at that time with an efficient official system. In addition, they maintained a very friendly relationship with other civilizations at that time.

The effect of the Great Palace also comes from the characteristics of this great empire:
:Lantern: The Great Palace is a special Town Hall building that will have all the functions of a Town Hall.
:Lantern: It also has 5 additional Administrator position (slots), allowing the player to hire up to 10 administrators.
:Lantern: Its construction will increase the player's reputation with any other Factions by 100%.



In general, we have reworked the entire trade system except for the original merchant ship visits, and at the same time, the entire trade technology branch has also been reworked.


The new trade system will bring you the following conveniences and opportunities:
ːorbː More Relaxing Start
Basic trade buildings are now enabled by default, meaning you no longer have to rely on Tech trees to start earning your initial currency.

ːorbː Auto Trading
Compared to before, you may need to spend more time setting trade goals and executing the trade caravan, but after completing these settings, the caravan can regularly sell and buy goods according to your settings, and now players can truly achieve centralized development Advantageous industries, in exchange for the cycle of scarce materials, I hope this can make the development options of the game more abundant, and avoid the embarrassment of players having to produce all materials by themselves, or order materials at high prices.


ːorbː Market Price Mechanism
Goods are bought and sold at different prices, and Factions are also willing to pay higher price for their favorite goods depending on their needs, which means that if you have enough time to check the price changes over time, you can even gain direct profit.
Of course, the market is not eternal, dumping the items will bring down prices, purchasing will bring prices up, and powerful businessmen are super smart, but if you are good at things like stock investment, crushing NPC's IQ is completely not a problem.


ːorbː Insurance
If conditions permit, you can purchase an insurance policy for your caravan, whether transporting by land or sea, and the insurance will provide you with some compensation in the event of a caravan in distress, avoiding one-time excessive losses.
As for why and when the caravan is in distress, we choose to understate it and pretend that this is not a big problem.
By the way, the risk of sea transportation is far greater than that of land, which should be known to everyone.

Spring Festival is the most important reunion festival for Chinese people every year.
As a team from China, we have created some contents related to this festival for all of you during the Spring Festival.
Maybe for Chinese players, this is just a mere commonplace, but we sincerely hope that players in other parts of the world can also enjoy and experience the interesting contents during this special festival.

:16bitheart: Pasting Up “Fu”
Posting the character "Fu" is a traditional Chinese New Year's custom. During Chinese New Year, every household will paste the big and small "Fu" characters on the doors and walls of their houses. Posting blessings expresses people's yearning for a happy life and wishes for a better future. But you may find that people often paste the word "Fu" upside down. Why is this?
Of course, it is not because they are illiterate, but because the folks simply put the word "福" upside down to express "happiness is flowing down（into them）" in order to more fully reflect the yearning and wish for happiness. This is also like an interesting homophonic meme, representing the people's beautiful vision for a happy life.
Players who have read this text, now you know what to do when a blessing event occurs in the game. You will see, those players who did not read the update announcement may choose the wrong one.


:16bitheart: Legend of Nian
Nian Beast, also known as "Xi", is a kind of monster in ancient Chinese myths and legends. According to legend, in ancient times, every midnight at the end of the year, Nian Beast would invade villages around the world and bring terrible disasters. In order to drive out the Nian beast, people finally found the weakness of the beast and successfully drove the beast. People all over the world always gather to celebrate the most important festivals, but the reasons for the gatherings in the stories are always unique, which is really amazing. Here, we also invite players from all over the world to share with us the stories behind your festivals, maybe We can put these interesting stories in the game, so as to share the joy from various cultures and regions with others.
After the update, you will learn how Nian was defeated. Before that, guess what it is most afraid of?


:16bitheart: Yuanxiao Lantern
On the 15th day after Chinese New Year, is another special festival: the Lantern Festival, this festival means the official end of the Chinese New Year,
Lantern festivals will be held in the bustling districts of towns. In many cities where rivers pass through, people will set off lanterns in the rivers. In addition, solving lantern riddles is also an important activity during the Lantern Festival. People write riddles on paper and put them into the lanterns for people to guess. Riddles can inspire wisdom and are interesting, so they are loved by all walks of life in the process of spreading. In many cases, solving puzzles will also bring some additional rewards.

• Added weaver profession for weaving crafting type (instead of farmers)
  
• Fishing jobs no longer created where bridges exist
  
• Exhausted mushroom logs now re-queue themselves to be constructed again
  
• Crafting stations will now remove items which are not used as part of the current crafting assignment
  
• Harvesting jobs now default to HIGHER priority if the farm plot is set to NORMAL priority
  
• Fix for an issue with extending stockpiles picking up the most recently placed stockpile group setting
  
• Fix for a crash when creating fishing jobs
  
• Fix for a crash when attempting to create a bridge construction job but no items are currently placed
  
• Japanese and Russian translations updated

• Removed Faulty Achievement System

• Addressed video/audio sync issues

• Further work on animations of Angel Foot Soldiers and Angel Champion

• Improvements to Sodomite civilians animations

Version 1.0.5344
- Fixed hardlock in front of bank and softlock in vault
- Localization fixes + updates 💬
- Controller Key bindings arrow symbols fixed ◀️ ▶️
- Debug Display defaults to off now
- QUEST TEXT now always Uppercase regardless of language 💌
- Added warning for very high resolution scale settings
- Real Floating Man Quest saves properly now :save:
- Fixed Factory pipe puzzle sometimes breaking 🥢
- Fixed holes where you can fall out of the world 🕳️
- Improved gameplay of a puzzle in Industrial Area
- Fixed broken collision of secret window in boss castle blocking you 🏰
- Fixed some more softlocks where you had to reset to last checkpoint
- Game no longer runs as demo if it can't connect to Steam to verify ownership
- Misc. other changes

1. Optimize some protagonist animation;
   
2. Optimize the enemy locking function (lock the enemy with the middle mouse button, and operate the scroll wheel to switch the locked object);
   
3. Optimize the attack effects and sound effects of some AI;
   
4. Optimize some particle effects such as fire source / skill / enchantment;
   
5. Fix the bug that "still rotates with the player after the enemy dies";
   
6. Repair the bug that "the opened coffin can be opened repeatedly after reading the file";
   
7. Fix the bug generated by the player when "using 'other' items in the backpack";
   
8. The map "soul tomb" is open (entrance: defeat Lv Bu to obtain key props and enter the golden coffin);
   
9. The new boss "stone ghost" can escape into the dreamland and try to challenge;

[h2[b]]Foreword:[/b][/h2]
This is a major update, and the part of the game’s essential has been radically expanded. This brings the gaming experience one step closer to an RPG. The transition from reality to supernatural experience in the game’s fiction world is becoming more and more solid and fluent.


The attack of some weapons will add damage with the element attribute. This part was only shown as a visual effect in the previous versions, such as the water stain of the mop, the current that spreads on the body when Vertue hits it, and the Luori ignites the body parts when it hits , etc. Today, these visuals have practical effects to match. One part of it is the damage caused by the elements. When it is dealt to the enemy, it will be displayed in the form of a number next to the physical damage with the corresponding color and icon.
The corresponding relationship between the colors is as follows:
Orange - Fire
Light blue - Ice
Indigo - Electric
Grey-green - Water
Attribute damage will cause a fixed life loss with any form of attack, regardless of the attack action or the positional relationship between the attacker and the victim at the time of the hit.

When the damage is dealt, the ailment state meter will be accumulated according to the ailment multiplier of the weapon. When the meter value exceeds the character's resistance, the ailment state corresponding to the element will be triggered. When the player character ailment value accumulates, it will be displayed in the middle of the screen in the form of a meter.


The following are descriptions of the various ailment states:

Last for 10s. Every 0.5s, it takes 5% of the maximum life damage, and 50% of the maximum life damage in total.


During the continuous 20s, the stamina value will stay at zero and cannot be recovered in any way, resulting in the inability of sprinting, attacking, kicking and other actions.


An out-of-control state in which no action can be performed for 3 seconds.


Lasts for 40s, during which the Endurance is cleared, causing the stamina to be capped to a fixed maxium value of 50, and the blunt weapon damage received is increased by 10 points. Sitting down for the duration does not restore health.


After the ailment state is triggered, the corresponding ailment accumulated value will be cleared and will not increase in any form during the period. Re-accumulation is only possible after the status ends.

The character's base resistance to all four elemental ailments is 100. The four basic attributes of the character, Vitality, Endurance, Strength, Agility, the part exceeding 10 can increase the resistance of the four ailment attributes of fire, ice, electricity and water respectively, by 1 for 1.

• This is the outfit for the museum security, using a new set of moves. It can be used as a flashlight or as a self-defense tool.
  
• Blunt weapon, base attack power 4, lightning damage 3, shock multiplier 10.
  
• As the initial weapon of the protagonist of the museum level.

• Added a new thunderstorm effect that instantly illuminates the entire environment, casting shadows and roaring with thunder.
  
• The texture of the ground has been optimized for improved performance and visual effect.
  
• Added adervistement panel to enhance the narrative.

• Reworked a more refined lower body model.
  
• Improved texture map quality.
  
• Integrate models to optimize the adaptability of special effects to models and improve rendering efficiency.
  
• Added "Domineering Atmosphere" visual effect.

• This effect requires the "Character Shadow" option to be turned on among the Graphic options.
  
• Character shadows become more distinct.
  
• More object surfaces will receive the cast of the character's shadow.
  
• Added shadow effects to several boss characters.

• Adjusted the combo time limit of attacking to make combo operation easier.
  
• Fixed an issue where attack commands did not work during action transitions.
  
• Further optimized the speed of attack actions.

• The mop's base physical attack has been nerfed to balance the introduction of water damage.
  
• Changed the configuration of enemies in some levels.

• There will be an event message when approaching or away from the water source.
  
• When approaching the water source, the water cup weapon held will light up.
  
• A toggle for window mode has been added to the main menu settings, and you can use Alt+Enter to switch at any time!

• The lighting effect of the heroine Pi Sicen in some levels has been improved.
  
• Added ragdoll effect after the character is down.

• The effect of electric attribute attacks has been improved.
  
• The quality of the special effects "Basilisk" made by Vertue has been improved.
  
• The position of the flame light source has been corrected.

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